[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Add a run target to the makefile

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco at marcopg.org> wrote:
> This allows to run sugar from outside the system path for
> development purpouses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco at marcopg.org>
> ---
>  Makefile.am |    9 +++++++++
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index 9e252af..79511e8 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -12,3 +12,12 @@ EXTRA_DIST =                    \
>        intltool-extract.in
>
>  DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --disable-update-mimedb
> +
> +run:
> +       PATH=$(prefix)/bin:$(PATH) \
> +       PYTHONPATH=$(pythondir) \
> +       XDG_DATA_DIRS=$(datadir) \
> +       GTK_PATH=$(prefix)/lib/gtk-2.0 \
> +       GTK_DATA_PREFIX=$(prefix) \
> +       GI_TYPELIB_PATH=$(prefix)/lib/girepository-1.0 \
> +       sugar-emulator
> --
> 1.7.7.3
>
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This could be useful for our end users as well, if they want to
experiment with making changes to the installed Sugar. The piece I
still struggle with is a simple way to let them switch back to the
system version when things go wrong. Any suggestions?

-walter

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org